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Physics

What are fractals and how can they help us understand the world?

Fractals are common in nature because of the surprisingly simple way they are made. Mathematically, they also help us make sense of complexity and chaos – and maybe even quantum weirdness

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Technology

What is artificial general intelligence, and is it a useful concept?

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Mind

What neurodiversity means for psychiatrists and the people they help

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Life

Quantum biology: New clues on how life might make use of weird physics

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Environment

To rescue biodiversity, we need a better way to measure it

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Physics

How indefinite causality could lead us to a theory of quantum gravity

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Space

Why are there so many rogue planets and what do they look like?

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Mind

What is thought and how does thinking manifest in the brain?

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Mind

How overcoming negative attitudes to ageing can make you live longer

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Space

We are about to hear echoes in the fabric of space for the first time

Gravitational waves can be lensed by massive galaxies so that they repeat, like an echo. Scientists are now readying to snare their first one and explore the cosmic secrets it holds

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Environment

How an audacious sonic survey could help revive damaged rainforests

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Humans

Who were the enigmatic Sea Peoples blamed for the Bronze Age collapse?

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Health

The ‘forever chemicals’ toxic to your health – and how to avoid them

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Physics

Why we are finally within reach of a room-temperature superconductor

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